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Saturday, 31 October 2015

Individual Quick Freezing technology
– Concept and advantages

Frozen foods are loved by adults and
kids all over the world. These foods are frozen in order to restore
their nutrients and improve their shelf life to a great extent.
Freezing is quite an old process and as in the case of many other
industries, some new and breakthrough innovations have been carried
out in freezing technology as well. The result is the new IQF
(Individual Quick Freezing). This method has created a revolution in
the way fruits and vegetables are being frozen all over the world. As
the name indicates, each and every piece of food is frozen
individually here by making a simple process change. You can read
more about this technology at abc.com.

The concept of IQF has been
introduced in order to improve the nutrients of fruits and vegetables
and to retain their freshness even after many days of being harvested
from the farm. With this technology, these foods not only retain
their colour and shape, but also their taste and nutritional value,
which is a big plus indeed. Every piece of food chosen for this
technology will be put through a fluidisation process, wherein they
will get frozen through a burst of fresh, cold air within 10 to 12
minutes. In the old technology, these would be put in a common blast
freezer for around 4 hours or more.

When fruits and vegetables are frozen
in large batches, lumps get formed at times. At some other times, not
all the items are frozen uniformly. This problem is completely
eradicated in the Individual Quick Freezing technology. When cold air
is directly applied on the food products, they get frozen quickly.
The products move freely, as they are loaded on to an air blast
tunnel and frozen within no time at all. As an end customer, when
you buy a packet of individually quick frozen food, you can defrost
or thaw only the amount that you need at a particular time. The rest
can be safely packed and put back in the freezer.

Vitamins, antioxidants and fibres are
the nutritional elements that tend to erode quickly when foods are
frozen. However the Individual Quick Freezing technology ensures that
fruits and vegetables have their elements intact at the end of the
process too. These foods are tested by the necessary quality
departments are given for sales to retail stores, only if is
confirmed that their nutritional values have not reduced. You can be
sure of the quality of your quick frozen foods, as they have passed
rigorous rounds of testing and quality appraisals.

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Starting a business and setting it up
can cost a huge sum of money. Irrespective of the level and nature of
your business, you must exercise prudence while purchasing industrial
machinery, as they can eat up a lot of cost. Refrigeration units like
walk-in freezers are no exceptions to this rule. Hence you
must invest in them only if it is absolutely necessary. While
investing them, you should think of ways and means to check if you
can reduce the costs in any way. Here are some tips as explained by
www.rinac.com that will help you think on those lines.

Any kind of
industrial cooling unit should be directly proportional to the size
of your business. Do not invest in machinery that is bigger than what
you require. This rule applies to refrigerated trucks as well.
To know what size of cooling unit you want, you must be having
thorough knowledge about the floor area available in your business
space to fit in this unit. Knowing the right size is of utmost
importance, because you don’t want your cooling unit to be
hindering the paths of your employees or customers.

Once you have decided the size, think
about the patterns available in that. Speak to experts and
consultants to know if buying a ready-made unit would yield more
profits or if buying the spare parts and manually assembling them
would be more profitable. Think about the cost factors involved in
both these methods, do a cost benefit analysis and choose the perfect
solution. Next is the issue of maintaining the cooling unit.

Any freezer unit will last only for a
short time if it is prone to frequent operations. The freezer door
should not be opened and closed frequently, because it does not help
proper cold air circulation in the internal unit. If cold air keeps
going out, your unit would become faulty in no time. Hence, in order
to save on huge repair costs, consider installing strip curtains in
your freezer at the time of setting up the unit itself, so that it
allows cold air to stay inside even when the doors are open for a
while.

Have a clear idea about the temperature
that you want around your freezer and the average temperature of the
foods that you will store inside your unit. You should have an
average idea of the maximum temperature that you would require,
because it becomes very costly and complex to reset the temperatures
after the unit has been installed.